'Bomb factory fingerprints found'

Nearly 200 hydrogen peroxide bottles were found in bins at the "bomb factory" of the alleged July 21 terror plotters with some of their fingerprints on them, a court has heard.

When police searched seven large communal bins at Curtis House, New Southgate, north London, four days after the alleged failed attacks, they also discovered a plastic container with a white substance in it and an explosives officer was called, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

The container was "identical" to the one used in the device of the fifth alleged bomber, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, who is said to have lost his nerve at the last moment and dumped it in parkland, said Max Hill, prosecuting.

Six men are accused of trying to carry out a series of suicide bombings on the London transport system with homemade rucksack bombs made from an explosive mixture of hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour with triacetone triperoxide detonators.

Detective Constable Christopher Green from Essex Police, who is attached to the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, searched the 5ft to 6ft tall industrial bins at the bottom of the tower block.

He told the court that officers discovered 138 one-litre plastic bottles and 52 four-litre plastic bottles in the bins at Curtis House.

Fingerprints belonging to Hussain Osman, Yassin Omar, Muktar Said Ibrahim and Asiedu were found on the bottles, along with Asiedu and Omar's DNA, the jury was told. There were also a number of labels from peroxide bottles, he said.

The court was shown an apparent "timetable" that was also found in the bins with the names Ismael, Yassin and Muktar on it, along with times and days of the week and references to weights and calculations.

Omar, 26, of 58 Curtis House - the alleged bomb factory; Ibrahim, 29, of Stoke Newington, north London; Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address; Ramzi Mohammed, 25, of North Kensington, west London; Osman, 28, of no fixed address; and Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London all deny charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.